Libro Mac Y Su Contratiempo De Enrique Vila-matas

Autor: Enrique Vila-Matas

Editorial: Debolsillo

Lenguaje: Español

ISBN: 9788466344852

Reseña:  NOMINADA AL EL PREMIO MAN BOOKER INTERNACIONAL 2020 Una novela que defiende la repetición y reflexiona sobre cómo se ha construido la historia de la literatura a partir de sucesivas variaciones del relato. En Mac y su contratiempo Enrique Vila-Matas revisita Una casa para siempre así como su obsesión por el origen de la literatura y el concepto de originalidad el paso del tiempo o la posibilidad de corregir el pasado a través de la escritura. Mac no tiene empleo y ocupa sus horas deambulando y obsesionado con su vecino un reconocido escritor al que detesta especialmente cuando éste lo ignora. Un día lo oye hablar con una librera acerca de su primer libro Walter y su contratiempo una obra de juventud de la que apenas se acuerda. Mac decide emprender un nuevo proyecto el de reescribir y mejorar la novela como si fuera suya. Se inicia así un vertiginoso juego de espejos orquestada por este peculiar lector-autor. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE Mac is currently unemployed and lives on his wifes earnings from her furniture restoration business. An avid reader he decides at the age of sixty to keep a diary. Macs wife Carmen a dyslexic born of dyslexic parents thinks he is simply wasting his time and risking sliding further into depression--but Mac persists and is determined that this diary will not turn into a novel. However one day he has a chance encounter with a near neighbor a highly successful author who once wrote a collection of enigmatic willfully obscure stories. Mac decides that while he will not write his own stories he will read revise and improve his neighbors which are mostly narrated by a ventriloquist who has lost the ability to speak in different voices. As Mac embarks on this task he finds that the stories have a strange way of imitating life. Or is life imitating the stories? As the novel progresses Mac becomes stranger and more adrift from reality and both he and we become ever more immersed in literature: a literature haunted by death but alive with the sheer pleasure of writing.